Sanctions Challenges Officer

7 months ago

London, United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 310381**Salary**:

- £31,621- Please see the Job Summary for further information.**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- 2 years (Fixed Term Contract)**Business area**:

- DG Economics, Science and Technology**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- London or East KilbrideAbout the job

**Job summary**:
You will be at the forefront of the FCDO’s sanctions work, using this powerful tool to achieve priority foreign policy objectives; you will work across all our sanctions regimes, giving you significant exposure to wider foreign policy thinking in the FCDO.

The Sanctions Litigation Unit is an expanding team at the heart of a FCDO-wide effort across multiple departments and works closely with the Legal Directorate as well as FCDO geographic and thematic desks in managing the thousands of UK and UN designations in place. Your work will have a direct, real-world impact.
- Work across all of our sanctions regimes, working closely with geographical and thematic teams, Posts, legal advisers, external counsel, OGDs to advise senior officials and Ministers on specific cases;
- Work closely with geographical desks, Legal Directorate, Information Rights Unit, Central Litigation Unit, and other government departments to respond to sanctions challenges, ensuring a consistent and co-ordinated response;
- Manage designation cases to ensure risks are identified, monitored and mitigated; and
- Lead reviews of existing sanctions designations and reviewing representations by designated persons including drafting advice to Ministers.

This is a demanding policy and project delivery role and will test your ability to work at pace across a broad portfolio to drive results in the context of significant uncertainty. It requires an ability to work in a novel and technical area of policy, to quickly grasp and advise on complex detail of particular - often the most complex and fascinating - designations.

**Job description**:
You will work as part of a team to manage legal and other risks to sanctions designations. Depending on your existing strengths and experience and your exact role in the team, you can expect to:

- Manage designation cases at risk of legal challenge, ensuring that all aspects of the case are effectively gripped and that all risks are managed and mitigated;
- Manage the review of existing, sanction designations, coordinating evidence gathering, legal review and the necessary clearances, sometimes to tight timetables.

The role will give you the opportunity to develop a range of operational and policy skills, and to demonstrate a breadth of competencies across policy and delivery that is unusually wide for an HEO role, and to develop an understanding of legislative processes. As with all roles in the Sanctions Litigation Unit, your role may flex in response to shifting priorities, given the fast-moving nature of the Directorate’s policy focus.

While the job is largely governed by legislation, you do not need to be a lawyer; an understanding of the law and how it can applies to casework would be useful. However, this is not essential as all relevant training will be provided.

**Person specification**:
**Minimum Criteria**
- A desire to learn and the motivation to become an ‘expert’ in sanctions policy;
- The ability and resilience to manage multiple projects concurrently, balancing longer-term work with urgent priorities;
- Excellent analytical and strategic thinking skills;
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to present complex and detailed advice clearly to others, including at a senior level, both in writing and verbally;
- The ability to flex between the detail and the big picture, cutting through to the key issues and challenging the status quo when necessary;
- Teambuilding skills to build a strong network that can collectively deliver at pace on a shared objective; and
- An ability to understand and work with legal processes.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace

**Benefits**:

- A Civil Service Pension.
- 25 days Annual Leave per annum.
- 9 days Public and Privilege holidays per annum.
- Learning and Development tailored to your role.

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.**Your Application**:
You will be asked to complete:
**Your online CV, **consisting of:

- Recent employment
- Education/qualifications

**A personal statement **(of up to 500 words).

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